Requesting the Sacrament

If you or a loved one is sick and in need of the Sacrament, please call the parish at (919) 570-0070 or visit the Emergency Help page to contact the priest on duty at area hospitals. For non-emergencies, the Priests of the parish frequently invite parishioners to be anointed after Mass. If you would like to be anointed while visiting the church for Mass, please call the parish office.

Anyone who is sick, undergoing serious surgery, elderly, or dying may receive this sacrament. One may be anointed multiple times over a lifespan.

What is Anointing of the Sick?

Is there anyone sick among you? Let them call for the Priests (James 5)

Holy anointing, like all sacraments, was instituted by Jesus Christ during his ministry on earth. The Catechism explains, "This sacred anointing of the sick was instituted by Christ our Lord as a true and proper sacrament of the New Testament. It is alluded to indeed by Mark, but is recommended to the faithful and promulgated by James the apostle and brother of the Lord" (CCC 1511; Mark 6:13; Jas. 5:14-15).

The anointing of the sick conveys several graces and imparts gifts of strengthening in the Holy Spirit against anxiety, discouragement, and temptation, and conveys peace and fortitude (CCC 1520). These graces flow from the atoning death of Jesus Christ, for "this was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, ‘He took our infirmities and bore our diseases’" (Matt. 8:17).

Mark refers to the sacrament when he recounts how Jesus sent out the twelve disciples to preach, and "they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them" (Mark 6:13). In his letter, St. James writes, "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven" (Jas. 5:14–15).

A person does not have to be dying to receive this sacrament. The Catechism says, "The anointing of the sick is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death. Hence, as soon as anyone of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived" (CCC 1514).

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Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration

At the center of our parish prayer, one will find a profound love for the Eucharist and Mary. Our parish is blessed to have Perpetual Adoration where the faithful can escape the business of the world and rest for an hour with Jesus.